Cold conditions are actually good for mechanized warfare, and Ukraine feels an urgency to make further gains. 

Our unfortunate tradition of buying boatloads of pointless discretionary items for loved ones loses more steam every year.

A new security treaty with tiny Vanuatu is a big response to China’s pact with the Solomon Islands.

It’s a good start, but it’s not the holy grail of decarbonization. That would entail plugging the industry into the emerging hydrogen economy.

The messy compromise can’t mask the obvious, which is that central banks are retreating from long-held policies of manipulating yields lower.